Global Villageson this site Global Villages are representatives of the 11 dominant culture regions, as designated by cultural geography maps Part I

The Global Villages Course I introduces students to Global Villages, also known as dominant cultureculture is not genetically inherited, it is shared, learned, and dynamic- never static regions. The Global Villages courses on this site are both historical and cultural in content because it is difficult to discuss one without the other. Geographic location has an undeniable impact on culture and cultural adaptations. The cultural geography genre divides the world into eleven (11) separate and dominant cultural regions.

This website refers to each of the eleven (11) culture regions as Global Villages, because our globalized world is both connected and interdependent, as neighboring villages have always been.

In reality, there are thousands of culture regions across the globe.  However, due to colonialismthe policy of acquiring political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, exploiting it economically More, tribal conflicts, wars, ethnic cleansingthe mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society - think the Holocaust--mass slaughter of Jews by the Nazis in WWII More, regional disasters, and mass immigration over time, nearly every region has changed in cultural make up from its humble beginnings.  Below are the four Global Villages studied in Part I.

Sub-Saharan Africa Global VillageAfrica is divided into two separate culture regions: Sub-Saharan located below the Sahara Desert, and north of the Sahara, which is part of the Islamic culture region, Islamic Global Villagea place in the world where your ancestor may have lived,  the world is divided into cultural areas, each area designated as a global village, see the Global Villages Map., Indic Global VillageIndia is now a separate culture region all its own and is designated by Indic Global Village on this site and Anglo-American Global Villagethe Anglo-American culture region is all of North America plus Alaska and Iceland and the included islands in the region, such as the Baffin Island of Canada - and excludes Mesoamerica below the Mexican-American border.

These lessons will enhance your  understanding of how each Global Village (Cultural Region) fits into today’s puzzle of all the world’s cultures.

The Lesson topics for this Course are: